Description

Kaavo provides solutions for managing distributed applications and workloads in the clouds. Kaavo’s core product, Infrastructure and Middleware On Demand (IMOD), makes it easier for individuals and businesses to leverage on-demand infrastructure and run secure and scalable web services and applications in the cloud. Kaavo is the first and only company to deliver a management solution for cloud computing based on an “application centric” approach. Leading public and private cloud providers and enterprise customers use Kaavo’s technology to deliver solutions for managing distributed applications and workloads in public, private, and hybrid clouds. Kaavo was founded in November 2007 by enterprise IT veterans with significant experience in delivering and managing secure, mission critical IT applications. Only the Cloud Application and Workload Management Platform from Kaavo delivers single click deployment of complex applications in addition to autopilot capabilities to manage service levels without human intervention. Kaavo has partnerships and full integration with some of the largest cloud providing companies in the world including Amazon, Rackspace, and IBM.

Category

Cloud Computing Management

Products

Cloud Management Platform

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Rene Buest is Senior Analyst and Cloud Practice Lead at Crisp Research, covering cloud computing, IT infrastructure, open source and Internet of Things. Prior to that he was Principal Analyst at New Age Disruption and member of the worldwide Gigaom Research Analyst Network. Rene Buest is top cloud computing blogger in Germany and one of the worldwide top 50 bloggers in this area. In addition, he is one of the world’s top cloud computing influencers and belongs to the top 100 cloud computing experts on Twitter and Google+. Since the mid-90s he is focused on the strategic use of information technology in businesses and the IT impact on our society as well as disruptive technologies.
Rene Buest is the author of numerous professional cloud computing and technology articles. He regularly writes for well-known IT publications like Computerwoche, CIO Magazin, LANline as well as Silicon.de and is cited in German and international media – including New York Times, Forbes Magazin, Handelsblatt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wirtschaftswoche, Computerwoche, CIO, Manager Magazin and Harvard Business Manager. Furthermore Rene Buest is speaker and participant of experts rounds. He is founder of CloudUser.de and writes about cloud computing, IT infrastructure, technologies, management and strategies. He holds a diploma in computer engineering from the Hochschule Bremen (Dipl.-Informatiker (FH)) as well as a M.Sc. in IT-Management and Information Systems from the FHDW Paderborn.